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20-Sep-07, 09:13 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Bris/Gold Coast Age/Gender: 32  | | | Question Re: Glass and Glass Tracking
2 Questions...
Firstly.... Whats the best way to fix the 5cm plastic tracking in place for the Glass, in an enclosure....
Would like 1cm nails, at each end and in middle, with some pva glue be enough to hold it???
Other Ideas???????
Secondly... When ordering the Glass... I am aware how to measure the height of the glass in tracking.... But how much should the glass overlap??? With the locks that you buy, whats the minimum and maximum the glass can overlap???
Thanks very much in advance to all those that help me out.... Cheers......
Rick.... |
20-Sep-07, 09:17 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Mornington Peninsula Gender:  | | | | You can get the nails to do it at Bunnings , any good glazier will tell you how to measure corecttly |
20-Sep-07, 09:24 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: VIC Age/Gender: 35 | | | | I would use a stronger glue than pva you can get them from bunnings I used a brown glue and it made abit of a mess next time I'm going to use a white one. With the over lap you could go to a pet store and measure the enclosures there and see what they have done. |
20-Sep-07, 09:24 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Sydney | | | | Glass over lap doesnt need to be much, lik 2cm is fine.
Measuring so it can be put in, and taken out of the tracking without dismantling the whole enclosure is the trick.
I think the glass should be about 5mm shorter that the hieght of the tracks, top to bottom.
I super glue my tracking in, never had an issue. |
20-Sep-07, 09:33 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Country NSW Age/Gender: 37 | | | | When overlapping glass just make sure it isn't too much because sliding glass locks only go about 9 or 10cm (can't remember exactly) and if the overlap is too much the lock won't fit on the slide part. Probably 2cm extra on each piece to give a total 4cm overlap would be fine. Trust me, I did it with my first bank of enclosures and now I have resorted to plastic door stops to hold the glass doors shut lol
I glue mine in plus add a nail here and there in the middle of the plastic, not where the glass slides.
Cheers
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20-Sep-07, 09:34 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Brisbane Queensland Gender: | | | | glass and tracking
with the lower track...pre drill in the centre rib with a 1ml. drill, trust me it makes the whole job easier and a better finish, l would use 15mm nails.....as for measuring your glass..put a steal rule or measuring device up into your top track [where the glass goes and measure to the top of your rib on your lower track [check this both ends to make sure you are paralell,then subtract 2mm from this measurement and that,s your glass height [remember to overlap your glass 40mmeach side of centre to give yourself an 80mm overlap of glass to prevent escapes....goodluck |
20-Sep-07, 09:35 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Bris/Gold Coast Age/Gender: 32 | | | | LOL.....Not sure about asking at Bunnings what nails to use.....
As I was told by one of the attendants there that they didnt even sell the 5mm plastic tracking.... SO I had a look and found it....
Okay....... so something like LIQUID NAILS should do the trick...... something in white seeing as the enclosure is white melamine...he he... |
20-Sep-07, 09:36 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Country NSW Age/Gender: 37 | | | | I forgot to mention, I add extra runners on the side where the glass butts against the enclosure. This way the glass slides into the tracks and the snake can't pry the door open.
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20-Sep-07, 09:39 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Bris/Gold Coast Age/Gender: 32 | | | | Noticed the bottom track already has 1mm holes drilled into it every 20 cm or so....... But nothing on the top??? Does the top not need nails??? or can I put the small nails in where the track slides, because in effect it will never slide along that surface anyways........
Might go, 3cm overlap each side Inbetween the comments so far... he he..... |
20-Sep-07, 09:42 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Bris/Gold Coast Age/Gender: 32 | | | | Hey, When I go to the glass cutter......
Can you ask them to groove out opening handles...??? Or whats everyone else do?? Just seen some people struggle to open the stiffer sliding doors, because their hand, or the glass is a lil slippery.....
Good Idea Nightowll...Might do that at a later stage when I have some hatchies........ |
20-Sep-07, 09:44 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Sydney | | | | Tracking is a pain to find, and I found out why, they only sell it (wholesalers) in like 2KM bundles lol..
Thats a lot of cages! |
20-Sep-07, 09:45 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Sydney | | | | Yes they can do groves, but will cost extra |
20-Sep-07, 09:46 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Bris/Gold Coast Age/Gender: 32 | | | | Pugsly.... If you have a BUNNINGs near you... They should stock it, though the sales people may not know where it is, or say they dont sell it......... In with All the Aluminium Window Tracks etc.....
Bunnings in Brissy/Gold Coast areas do sell it.... |
20-Sep-07, 09:48 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Sydney | | | | Yeah I do have one, but I know a few other spots to get it so Im not worried, but the reason not many places stock it is because of how much you need to buy at a time! |
20-Sep-07, 09:50 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Bris/Gold Coast Age/Gender: 32 | | | | Bunnings sell it in 1200mm or 1800mm lengths... Pre Packaged..... | | |
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